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I would like a story of how one person was mormon and how they "saw the light" I am a former muslim and my story will be included in the anthology. My anthology is about leaving your religion for atheism.

I was hardcore LDS until my mission, when I started to doubt. The doubt increased during law school and became mature when I started my law practice. Now, I am a secular humanist. My family is still in the church, which is hard. You can check out my blog at www.Theofrak.com. Glad to find group of people who have similar attitudes about the LDS church.

Tourette's syndrome opera was pretty much an on-the-spot made up thing, and it shifted towards nastier and more blasphemous when my brother and I grew up and went on trips ourselves without our true-blue Mormon mother. We haven't gone on a car trip together since he got married 12 years ago, and I can't really remember most of the songs - and most of the ones I can are not acceptable or printable here...the recipe's easy enough. Take a hymn (or any other well known tune) keep a few identifying lyrics, and replace the rest with as much vile-ness, political incorrectness, and offensiveness as you can possibly dream up.

Its funny you mention hymns. I havent been in an LDS church for 31 years (and still recovering- that s)ays something). I know all the hymns, but my brother and me invented a car travelling game we have dubbed "Tourettes synd.rome opera" where we sing pop songs, old standards and mormon church hymns but replace the lyrics with such vile blasphemous and profane lyrics it would curl your ears. Some (mentionable..."put your shoulder to the wheel - get run over", "pioneer chickens", several versions of "Book of moron stories", "piss,was thelittle stream as it hurried down my leg." We would get in all kinds of trouble with church songs. lol.

Hey, remember this one? Sing along! "I hope they call me on a mission, when I have grown a foot or two. I hope by then I will be ready to teach and preach and learn as missionaries do!" HA HA HA. I can't believe that's still in my head. What effective indoctrination they use!

I like to say "You can take the girl out of the Mormon Church, but you can't take the Mormon Church out of the girl". I haven't been active since I was 17, and I'm about your age now. My mom is a soprano in the MoTab Choir, I was raised SUPER-Mormon. The conditioning, I find, is still there. I am still programmed in ways I never imagined. I think that the best you can do is get as far away from their thinking as you can, and delve deeply in other ways of thinking so you can see just how skewed and weird their beliefs are in comparison. I never realized how totally wacko crazy the gospel teachings were until I had something to compare them to. But the programming....oy...I still am unconsciously looking for that magical return missionary who will financially support me my whole life. When's that gonna happen? Oh yeah. NEVER.